BEIJING (AP) — While China appears to have reduced coronavirus cases to near zero, other infectious threats remain, with local health authorities announcing a suspected bubonic plague case in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
“It’s like the flu”
Can feudalism be far behind?
Damned pangolins.
RATS!! Turmoil again!
Plague can be fatal in up to 90% of people infected if not treated, primarily with several types of antibiotics.
But Trumpian Plague aka MAGA Trumpism = Trump Virus is 100% lethal!
That’s a great headline for getting attention but bubonic plague is both easily treatable and containable in modern times which is why we don’t see it very often.
Everything Trump Touches Dies. This disease needs to be eradicated.
We’ve already done plague. Shouldn’t we be preparing for a meteor strike?
Bubonic plague has remained active but it’s very rare and mostly treatable if diagnosed early, California every few years has reports of someone getting the plague, usually at a campground or the like, from an infected rodent or fleas from one.
Can we call it the “white people plague?”
ETA: of course there is this…
From what I understand, the US has at least one case a year. While this is not exactly great news, it also seems to me that it isn’t apocalyptic. The day, however, is young, and we may see “make the plague great again” hats by tomorrow morning.
In New Mexico, there are usually a few cases every year. The local science fiction convention took its name from the plague: the “Bubonicon” – with Perry Rodent as its mascot. Infections are rare enough that we can treat it with some levity.
Damned gila monsters.
But Trump and Trumpturd in chief Navarro are going to claim that Chine hid reports of the deadly disease
just to hurt Trump’s beautiful economy and that they should be punished, the disease by the way is harmless 99% of the time and the precautions recommended by the FDA and CDC should be ignored.
Or The "American Virus " we own it now “We’re #1”
In other news it’s Monday , so Tom Tomorrow weighs in
For fucks sake! What’s with the dumb ass scare headlines? TPM are you that desperate for clicks? The USA has multiple cases of Bubonic plague every single year.
The marmot is believed to have caused the 1911 pneumonic plague epidemic, which killed about 63,000 people in northeast China. It was hunted for its fur, which soared in popularity among international traders. The diseased fur products were traded and transported around the country – infecting thousands along the way.
Just last week, two cases of bubonic plague were confirmed in Mongolia – brothers who had both eaten marmot meat.
Last May, a couple in Mongolia died from bubonic plague after eating the raw kidney of a marmot, thought to be a folk remedy for good health. Two more people got pneumonic plague – another form of the disease, which infects the lungs – months later across the border in Inner Mongolia.
Excerpts from CNN
Democrats need to start calling this The Trump Plague – and if questioned, the consistent response should be “the virus had its origins in China, but the US epidemic is due to Trump’s failures of leadership. The rest of the world has managed to minimize the impact of the virus – but the virus continues to kill thousands, and infect hundreds of thousands, of Americans every week.”
I didn’t know MAGAs were in China too.
I see several other people have pointed out what, according to the CDC:
“Over 80% of United States plague cases have been the bubonic form. In recent decades, an average of seven human plague cases have been reported each year (range: 1–17 cases per year).”
One case in China near Mongolia? This is more fear China propaganda crap.
